Position seems broken in xmlparserv2.jar

Question

Hi, my application is using xmlparserv2.jar to generate an rtf document from an xml document and an xsl file. However the functions position() and last() return the wrong values (typically always 1, sometimes 2) - I have put some trace into the xsl file to display their values. If instead I parse the identical xml document and identical xsl file using saxon they work fine, producing the correct values and thus the expected output.
My production system is using xmlparserv2 version 9.2.0.2.0, but I get the same problem with 9.2.0.6.0 which is the latest version as far as I know.
My xml file is xml version 1.0.
Saxon is version 8.8N
Has anybody else had this problem or have any suggestions as to what might cause it?

Answer 1

On further testing, the problem seems to be document-specific. It has happened to me more than once, and happened persistently in the case that occasioned starting this thread. However, when I created a new, simple document just now, and tested it in InDesign CS4 and CS5 on the Mac, the results were the same whether I did copy and paste into, or cut and paste into. The object remained in the same relative position on the page spread, which is what I wanted.
Something seems to be causing an issue in the particular document I am working on.
I have not tried trashing the prefs yet, because it is a big pain to recreate them. And now that it seems to be a document-specific problem (bug?), I am not sure that trashing the prefs would help.